A set of three lessons using extracts from Darren Shan's 'The Demon Thief'. Allows younger pupils to engage with a modern horror writer which they find accessible. Uses relevant resources for three subsequent lessons and aims to teach pupils to recognise, analyse and use various creative writing skills: sentence structure, personification, effective vocabulary choices. Final lesson contains a creative writing assessment for pupils to display the skills they have learnt throughout the sessions. Contains: 3 Powerpoints with complete lessons: starter activities, varied discussion, reading and writing tasks and plenaries 3 worksheets with relevant extracts from The Demon Thief

All the resources for a workshop I did with visiting primary school children aimed at enthusing them to write their own piece of Creative Writing using a range of techniques. It lasted two hours and at the end each student had created their own descriptive piece to take back to their primary school. Covers sentence structure, selecting premier league descriptive vocabulary, imagery, using effective verbs, adjectives and adverbs as well as the senses to create detailed description. Contains: PowerPoint of the entire workshop Plan of the workshop and resources required Worksheet on the senses Worksheets for whole group sentence structure activity

Five sample exam questions with an accompanying extract from the play for use when practising for the GCSE English Literature Exam.

Five sample exam questions, each based around a theme, with an accompanying extract from the play for use when practising for the GCSE English Literature Exam.

A complete scheme of 11 lessons focusing on preparing students for the Component 1 of the new GCSE. Easy to follow with no additional resources required. Has a specific focus on the questions from the EDUQAS specification, but would be useful for any students preparing for the fiction paper / component 1 of the new English language GCSE where they need to work on their reading and writing skills. Includes: 1. A comprehensive breakdown of the whole scheme for teachers to follow 2. A complete and adaptable powerpoint with 11 fulls lessons (Do Now, a series of tasks plus a plenary or 'Exit Ticket' for each one) 3. Short excerpts from the various fiction sources which the lessons focus on

A test based on an extract from 'My Mother Wore a Yellow Dress: Memories of an Irish Childhood' by Christina McKenna. Aimed at year 7, 8 and 9 pupils, the test focuses on questions which will prepare students for the new GCSE-style examinations. The four questions look at selecting information, inferring and deducing information from the text, commenting on the writer's intentions and analysing the effects of the language used. Contains: The test itself The relevant extract A comprehensive mark scheme

A test based on an extract from Lemony Snickett's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' (taken from the chapter entitled 'A Bad Beginning'). Aimed at Year 7 and 8 pupils, the test focuses on questions which will begin to prepare pupils for the new GCSE-style examinations. The four questions look at selecting information, inferring and deducing information from the text, commenting on the writer's intentions and analysing the effects of the language used. Contains: The test itself The relevant extract A comprehensive mark scheme

A challenging test based on the extract from 'The Red Room' chapter of Jane Eyre. Aimed at Talented, Able and Gifted pupils, the test focuses on questions which will prepare pupils for the new GCSE-style examinations. The four questions look at selecting information, inferring and deducing information from the text, commenting on the writer's intentions and analysing the effects of the language used. Contains: The test itself The relevant extract A comprehensive mark scheme

An exam paper in the style of the new WJEC English Language Component 1 based on an extract from JRR Tolkein's The Hobbit. Questions which are written in the style of sample / pre-released materials to allow students valuable practice of the exam type. Contains: Extract from The Hobbit Question Paper

A Powerpoint with more than 25 short activities, perfect for use as starters or 'Do Now' activities. Each pair of slides has 5 questions for pupils to work through at the beginning of a lesson and a set of the answers, both of which can quickly and easily be tagged on to any other lesson to serve as a quick grammar starter. All activities are linked to commonly misspelled homophones. Choose the 'Do Now' or the 'Starter' version, depending on what your school calls the first part of the lesson.

A set of three simple lessons which look at the poems 'Who's for the Game' and 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' and lead students into a comparison essay. Aimed at lower ability students, the powerpoints present a step by step guide to looking at each poem in turn and then practising how to write about the poems and compare them. COntains: 3 Powerpoints, 1 per poem and 1 about comparing the 2 poems 2 worksheets with the poems printed on them

A set of 8 lessons using Roald Dahl's Boy as the inspiration for Philosophy for Children, linked closely to fiction texted aimed at extending children's literacy levels. Through reading of a range of texts linked to autobiography and childhood, pupils engage in discussions centred around issues linked to growing up and childhood. The reading materials supplied contain excerpts from fiction, non-fiction, prose, play, poetry and modern / Pre-Twentieth Century texts and are a useful introduction to more challenging, older texts required in the new curriculum in the form of small, manageable extracts. For use with Year 7 or 8 Contains: 8 self contained PowerPoint presentations which include entire lessons - excerpt from Boy, plus short discussion tasks leading into a number of potential Philosophy for Children questions. 8 Resource sheets containing the excerpts used with each PowerPoint lesson